TV ratings - November 1

TV ratings: The X Factor owns the Saturday-night stage

ITV1's The X Factor appears to be pulling away from BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing in the ratings, boosting its audience by 1.2 million on Saturday, November 2.

Last year, Strictly Come Dancing had the ratings edge over its ITV1 reality talent show rival but the tables seem to have been reversed this year.

The X Factor attracted 10.9 million viewers and a 43% share between 7.30pm and 9.05pm on Saturday, according to unofficial overnight figures.

Last week, the show pulled in 9.7 million and a 40% share – up 400,000 on the previous week.

Saturday's X Factor results show attracted 8.5 million and a 38% share between 9.50pm and 10.35pm on ITV1.

Strictly Come Dancing drew 9.4 million viewers and a 40% share between 6.05pm and 7.30pm, up 100,000 on the previous week.

In the first week of November last year, the BBC1 show was the ratings winner for a fourth week in a row, beating The X Factor by nearly a million viewers.

BBC1's drama Merlin gained from being moved to a later slot, pulling in 5.8 million and a 23% share between 7.30pm and 8.15pm.

This was up 300,000 on last week, when Merlin aired between 5.50pm and 6.35pm.

Harry Hill's TV Burp brought 6 million and a 24% share to ITV1 between 7pm and 7.30pm.

The final episode of BBC2's Timewatch – The Last Day of World War One drew 2.5 million and a 10% share between 8.15pm and 9.15pm.

Channel Five's movie repeat of Stuart Little 2 pulled in the network's highest Saturday rating with 1.5 million and a 10% share between 4.05pm and 5.40pm.

Channel 4's terrestrial movie premiere of Recount picked up 500,000 viewers and a 2% share between 9.05pm and 11.20pm, with a further 38,000 watching on Channel 4 +1 an hour later.

E4 repeated all five episodes of the Charlie Brooker zombie drama Dead Set back to back on Saturday night, gaining 213,000 and a multichannel share of 1.7% between 10pm and 12.45am. A further 54,000 tuned in on E4 +1 an hour later.

Sky Sports 1's live coverage of the anti-climactic Twenty20 match between England and the Stanford Superstars, with the winners sharing $20m (£12.4m) in prize money, peaked at 687,000 viewers for the 15 minutes from 10.15pm.

Live match coverage from Antigua between 9.30pm and 12.15am averaged 707,000 viewers and a multichannel share of 5.2%, as viewers watched England being hammered by 10 wickets.

Sky Sports 1's full coverage between 8.30pm and 1am pulled in 555,000 viewers and a 3.7% share.

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